Chapter 30: The Lantern Festival
"Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival." Murong Zheng only said one sentence lightly, and then frowned, the words behind seemed to be a little unspeakable, Lu Linlang leaned against the door and couldn't help yawning, "I know, so what?" ”
"I'd like to ask you for a favor." knew that it would be no good for this guy to come to find someone in the middle of the night, Lu Linlang silently slandered in his heart, but for the sake of him also helping himself a lot, "What a favor, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help." ”
"Tomorrow's Lantern Festival, I want you to ask Miss Xu out and take her to a specific place." Murong Zheng frowned, his expression was extremely serious, this seemed to be a very important thing for him.
Lu Linlang hugged his arms, did he want to find a place to meet Xu Qingyue, and then confess to others? But in another month is the day of the draft, what is the point of his confession at this time? But I really couldn't bear to refuse him.
"I have good news for you." Lu Linlang looked at Murong Zheng in the courtyard, only to realize that he didn't seem to have seen him much in the past two days, and he was still wearing the clothes he made for him, but it was already a little dirty.
It seems that he really doesn't have any clothes to wear, and there are still some leftovers of those fabrics from last time, so I'll make him a change of clothes when I'm free.
"What's the good news?" Murong Zheng took two steps forward, Lu Linlang was only wearing a shirt, the front placket was slightly open, revealing a slender white neck, he quickly looked away after just one look, but he couldn't help but feel a little tightness in his throat, turned his head and pretended to cough.
Hearing him coughing, Lu Linlang couldn't help but glance at him more, not knowing if he was sick, "When I went to the Xu family's compound that day, I had already made an appointment in advance to go out with Miss Xu during the Lantern Festival, so your favor is just a gesture for me, but there is only one chance, you have to hurry." ”
"Opportunity?" Murong Zheng suddenly tightened his pupils, stepped in front of Lu Linlang in a few steps, looked down at her condescendingly, and suddenly exuded a strong sense of oppression around him, "What do you know?" ”
"I ......" Lu Linlang was startled by his sudden approach, and felt the momentum emanating from him, remembering that when he first saw him, he brandished a big knife and killed three people in an instant, and after getting along with him for a long time, he almost forgot his truest side.
"I mean, there aren't many opportunities to ask Miss Xu out, what do I know? I don't know anything! Lu Linlang hurriedly shook his head, insisting that he didn't know anything.
After all, Xu Qingyue is a show girl who is going to enter the palace for the draft, Murong Zheng is probably afraid that she will know about his private affair with Xu Qingyue, so she is so nervous, Lu Linlang said that she can understand, but she is inevitably still a little scared.
"Just this?" Murong Zheng saw Lu Linlang's panicked appearance, only to realize that he had reacted a little too aggressively, lowered his eyes and took two steps back, distanced himself from her, and half of the expression on his face disappeared into the darkness, "Since you have made an appointment with Miss Xu, we will go to Xu's Mansion together tomorrow to pick her up, and I will call you when the time comes." ”
"Okay, I got it." Lu Linlang nodded, watching Murong Zheng turn around and walk back to his house, he used to always watch him go back over the courtyard wall, but now that there is no courtyard wall, seeing him walk back to the room, I don't know why I always feel weird in my heart.
A cold wind blew, Lu Linlang couldn't help but sneeze, and hurriedly retracted into the room, closed the door, and ran back to the bed to warm up, Murong Zheng's appearance just now was really scary, could he have other plans besides confession? The words were not clear, and now even she was nervous.
When the candlelight in Lu Linlang's room went out, a black shadow in the courtyard jumped out quickly, and there was no sound.
It was late at night, the palace was still brightly lit, and the young emperor was leaning on the soft couch to read, when he suddenly saw the bright yellow gauze tent of the palace moving without wind, and then faintly heard a light footsteps.
"You're here." The emperor put down the scroll in his hand, a smile appeared on his somewhat tired face, Murong Zheng raised his hand and lifted the hanging curtain and walked into the main hall, knelt down on one knee and bowed, "See the emperor." ”
"Rong Sheng doesn't have to be polite, get up quickly." Long Feichi waved his hand and asked Murong Zheng to sit down in front of him, "Is there anything important that you came to the palace so late?" ”
"Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival." Murong Zheng's expression was indifferent, and there was a bit of coldness in his tone, he didn't say much else, Long Feichi knew what his words meant, and nodded lightly, "The widow naturally knows that tomorrow's honor guard is ready, Long Xiang personally arranged, even the route is planned by him, if there are many people, he will improvise." ”
"Presumably he has something to prepare for the route, too." Murong Zheng frowned, maintaining a high degree of vigilance while talking to Long Feichi, as long as there was the slightest disturbance, he would immediately hide.
"His style has always been clear, and he just doesn't pay much attention to it when the time comes." Long Feichi was wearing bright yellow bedclothes, and he was already a little messy at this time, but he didn't care about this, "It's been hard for you this time." ”
"That's what I'm supposed to do, it's just...... Probably some unrelated people are going to be involved. Murong Zheng paused slightly, sighed lightly, and Long Feichi raised his face to look at him, "Irrelevant people? What does this mean? ”
"It's nothing, I'm just here to confirm tomorrow's arrangements with the emperor, since there's nothing to do, the emperor should go to bed early." Murong Zheng got up and was about to leave, but Long Feichi stopped him, "In the middle of the night, it's really dangerous for you to go in and out of the palace, wait until dawn and then go back, the wing room next to it has been prepared for you, you can rest for the night." ”
Murong Zheng paused, paused slightly, and finally turned around and leaned over, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”
When Lu Linlang woke up, the sky was already bright, she opened the door and looked at the weather outside, the weather is good today, and the lantern festival at night should also be very lively, she fetched water to wash up, changed her clothes, and when she was about to go out to pour water, she suddenly saw Murong Zheng standing outside the door.
Anyway, he had seen the appearance of not washing his face when he just woke up, Lu Linlang didn't care anymore, and said hello very calmly, "You also got up so early." ”
"Early? It's three days now, do you think it's still early? Murong Zheng hugged his arms, with a tone of lessons, like the head teacher who was late for school and guarded the door of the classroom, Lu Linlang went out and poured the washing water in the flower bed.
"Anyway, the lantern festival only starts in the afternoon, what are you doing so early? Are you so anxious to see Miss Xu? ”
Not knowing what strange things she was saying again, Murong Zheng sighed helplessly, "Shouldn't you just wear this set of clothes to the Lantern Festival?" ”
"What? Isn't it possible? Lu Linlang looked down at what she was wearing, the first batch of cotton cloth she bought back was all made into her own clothes, although it was not as good as the clothes she designed herself, but it was strong and convenient, no matter what she worn, she would not feel distressed.
After speaking, when she raised her head to look at Murong Zheng, she found that he had actually changed into a new dress, which she had never seen before, the clothes looked like first-class high-end in terms of style and fabric, and the cuffs were embroidered with gold threads, and the dark lines of the clothes were extremely high-end in the sunlight.
And this dress is different from the casual clothes he usually wears when he goes to the barracks, if it weren't for his darker skin, it would be exactly the same as those sons and brothers in the capital who eat, drink and have fun all day long.
But it's also good-looking, his appearance is already very good, and he has been honed in the military camp for a while, his back is straight, the muscles on his body are smooth, and the clothes on his body are also propped up, which makes people feel full of security at a glance.
This is the clothes that Murong Zheng brought out from the Hou Mansion, he is now crawling around in the military camp all day long, these clothes are stored in the depths of the wardrobe by him, and today he turned out a set and wore it on his body, but he looked more burly and straight than before.
"Yes, you have changed into a new outfit, so I'll go change it too." She followed behind Murong Zheng in this cotton dress like a girl serving tea and pouring water, she didn't have good-looking clothes, as a designer, how could her wardrobe be empty?
Lu Linlang returned to the room, bypassed the screen, and there were two large solid wood wardrobes inside, which had long been stuffed with all kinds of clothes, she sometimes had inspiration and would start making them immediately, but many clothes could not be worn in this place, after all, she still maintained the thinking of modern people, if those clothes were worn out, they would definitely be pointed at their noses and scolded or regarded as crazy.
simply chose a stand-up collar gown, with a horse face skirt with the same color main waist and gold silk unicorn pattern, and tried her best to put herself in a decent hairstyle, and when she was busy with these, she stood in front of the mirror to take a look, and looked like a young lady.
It's just that she doesn't have any accessories, her hair looks a little bare, and there is nothing on her waist except for a small jade pendant, but she also looks plain, she turned around in front of the mirror and walked out satisfied.
"How? Is it okay to wear this out? ”
Murong Zheng had been waiting outside a little impatiently, but he could understand that the woman was slower in dressing up, and when he heard Lu Linlang's voice, he turned around, he didn't have much hope, but he still felt that his eyes lit up.
At this time, it was spring, everything was reborn, everywhere was a piece of bright green, Lu Linlang chose the goose yellow between yellow and green, at that time I always felt that she was a little too thin, at this moment this dress on the body looks extremely slender, a few strands of broken hair on the sideburns are even more delicate and cute, the pair of apricot eyes are scorching and shining in the sun, like a transparent spring.
Seeing Murong Zheng's reaction, Lu Linlang knew that this outfit was a good match, and he didn't wait for him to comment, "But when I go out later, I want to go to the jewelry store to buy a few things, I don't even have a hairpin, it's too shabby." ”